Monique Richard is taking on the K2 challenge (8611m)

QUEBEC, July 9, 2015 /CNW Telbec/ - She has just reached the Base Camp of K2, the second highest mountain in the world after the Everest. If she succeeds in reaching the summit, she will be the first Canadian and the first Quebecker to have accomplished this!

On the summit she will display the Canadian and Quebec flags, the Fibromyalgia flag, a cause which she has supported for years, and the Montreal flag as a "prologue" of the city's 375 Anniversary (supported by Mayor Denis Coderre).